The Search For Aliens: A Rough Guide To Life On Other Worlds

Author: Piers Bizony

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Price : 30.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781405383240
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint : Rough Guides Ltd
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Weight (g) : 0.304
Publication date : 01 January 2012
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 16mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Availability date : 01 February 2012
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A guide to the most exciting field of modern science: the search for extraterrestrial life. It identifies, locates, and describes the research projects; everything from radio dishes searching for intelligent alien signals to deep oceanic research, seeking links between terrestrial organisms and the broader cosmos.

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Piers Bizony is a full-time popular science writer. He won NASA's Eugene Emme Ward award for Astronautical writing for his book, The Rivers of Mars: Searching for the Cosmic Origins of Life, chronicling the Mars Viking hunt for life in the 1970s.

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